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Babies are born with an instant fascination with the human face, and this powerful natural attraction persists throughout our lives. In the Eye of the Beholder takes readers on an engaging tour of the science behind this all-too-human activity, revealing what happens inside our heads when we look at faces.
What can neuroscience tell us about how the brain perceives faces? How do facial proportions change as we age? Can one judge personality simply by looking at a face? Why are some faces more attractive to us? Psychologists Vicki Bruce and Andy Young provide thought-provoking answers to these questions, using state-of-the-art science, amazing computer-manipulated graphics, and colorful paintings from the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring over 200 pictures, including fifty in full color--takes us behind the scenes of something we do a hundred times a day, revealing how we look at, and judge, human faces.
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Kirkus评论
Evolution has bestowed a remarkably expressive face on humans, and we have used it to communicate a dazzlingly wide variety of information to one another.. The authors, both psychologists and longtime researchers in the field of how we express messages with our faces and how we decipher them, have provided a cogent summary of what is known, as well as some interesting speculation on what seems likely. Because the book was originally written to accompany an exhibit at the Scottish National Gallery, it features a wide and appealing variety of illustrations drawn from artworks, in addition to a number of photographs, some computer-enhanced. The manner in which we use information derived from our reactions to faces to make decisions on concerns as disparate as truthfulness and sexual appeal, and the means by which the brain processes data drawn from our perpetual study of the faces around us are covered in depth here. While the authors write with clarity, the detail of the study and the emphasis on scientific investigation make this a work of interest primarily to students and others involved in some aspect of the field, though a serious layperson should find much here of interest. A handsomely presented report on an emerging field of research. (189 color and b&w illustrations)
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Art and science join hands in this beautifully illustrated book on the subject of human facial perception. Bruce (psychology, Univ. of Stirling) and Young (applied psychology, Cambridge Univ.) describe the neurological processes that occur as we look at a face and suggest reasons for the almost universal reaction to beauty and certain features of facial "personality." Written to accompany a recent exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the book successfully illustrates psychological and neurological processes with pieces from the show. While emphasizing research in psychology, the authors also include relevant discoveries in the fields of medicine, biology, and engineering. Daniel McNeill's The Face (Little, Brown, 1998) covers similar ground in a slightly more engaging, accessible mannerthough without the extensive and effective use of illustration found here. Both books are recommended for their organization, clarity of text, and unusual insight into human behavior.Laurie Bartolini, Illinois State Lib., Springfield (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
1 Introduction: The face - organ of communication |
2 Light, Colour, and shape: The science of vision |
3 Physical differences between faces: Age, sex, and race |
4 The mating game: attractiveness and the sociobiology |
5 Whose face is it? How individual faces are recognised |
6 Messages from the face: Lipreading, gaze, and expression |
7 In the brain of the beholder: The neuroscience of face perception |